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M. CASMIER.

UNION GARMENT. APPLICATION man APRA. 1913.

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MINNIE CASMIER, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ASSIGNO-R TO STEPHENSON UNDERWEAR MILLS, 0F SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

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Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

Application med Apri14.,1913. serial No. 758,784.

T0 all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MINNIE CASMIER, a citizen of the United States, residingv at South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain .new and useful Improvements in Union Garments, of which the following is a specilication.

The invention relates generally to an improvement in union garments, being more particularly directed to a union garment in which the improved construction providesa permanently closed crotch, while at the same time providing sufficient material for proper fitting without the use of relatively large and unsightly flaps or drop sections.

` The main object of the present invention is the provision of a gusset of peculiar formation and construction, which when combined with a union garment appropriately cut for the reception of the gusset assures a desirable and necessary feature of a union garment, while at the same time providing permanently closed crotch portion.

The invention in its preferred form of details will be described inthe following speciication, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure `1 is a front elevation of the iniproved union garment. vation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged broken front elevation with the leg portions turned up to show the leg and crotch portions of the gusset. Fig. a is a-broken rear elevation showing the closing iiap in-open position. Fig. 5 is a view of the gusset.

A Fig. Gis a'view of the flap.

In the present invention the union garment for which the improvements are particularly designed, is preferably made of the usual tubular webbing which for the purpose of the present invention is divided on a median line extending from the neck 1 downwardly to the crotch portion and upwardly along the back terminating at a point slightly above the Waist line. The

thus provided communicates with similar lines of division -3 eX- tending from the crotch down the leg portions for'a short distance, so that in the initial step the garment is divided from the neck, through the crotch and up the back, the leg portions from the crotch outwardly being also divided on their under sides for a short distance.

Fig. 2 is a rear ele- In conjunction with the garment as thus formed I use a gusset which is shown more particularly in Fig. 5. This gusset is integrally constructed of a single piece of approprlate material cut to form a main por tion 4, having upwardly converging side edges 5. The main portion is provided with depending spaced leg portions 6, which normally incline inwardly or toward each other, the juncture of the outer edges of the main portion and leg portions being notched at 7 -to provide for the proper -application of the gusset withoutv forming a fold. The lower edge of the main portion intermediate the leg portions presents downwardly converging marginal edges 8, so that between the leg portions the main portion terminates in approximatelytriangular shaped crotch portion 9. The main portion of the gusset from the relatively upper edge thereof to the point above the crotch portion is longitudinally slitted or divided upon a median linel as at 10. 4

The gusset is secured in place by uniting the outer edges 5 of the main portion between and to the respective edges of the line of division 2 of the back, the leg portions 6 being similarly secured between and to the respective edges of the lines of division 3 of the legs. This provides the.' desired enlargeupper parts of the legs, it being understood that that portion of the gusset below the lower terminal of the line of division 10 of the slit and the marginal edges 8 0f the main portion of the gusset form a permannently closed crotch portion for the garment.

To close the line of division 10 of the gusset I provide aflap shown more particularly in Fig. 6, comprising an integral section of material 11 having a straight marginal edge A ment of the garment about the posterior and 12 which is secured directly to the gusset on one side of the line of division 10 thereof, the flap having an opposing marginal edge 13 on opposite angularly related lines, the width' of the flap being sufficient to overlap throughout at least aportion of its length the line of juncture between the gusset and garment proper throughout one edge of the main portion 4 of the gusset. rJ'he flap in the adjacent free edge is formed with a button hole 14 to cooperate with a button ll5 secured on the garment, whereby with the iap fastening in place the opening or line of division 4in the gusset, which as will be understood forms a necessary rear opening in (the garment, is covered, and the person thus protected.

In the particular ty-pe of union salts to v posterior opening and at the same time a Athe garment to closethe permanently closed crotch without the employment of relatively lar `e and unsightly as well as uncomfortable aps or drop sections, and the salient feature of the present invention, therefore, resides in a means by which this diiiiculty is overcome,.namely, 1n the provision of a single gusset, itself dividing to form the posterior opening`,'while at the same time being formed to provide a permanently closed cr h.

Whatis claimed is:

1. A union garment diyided through the crotch portion and u approximating the wa1st e, the legs of the garment being divided fr m the crotch portion toward their free e ds, a singleA piece gusset including an unbroken crotch portion, leg sections marginal edges of said gusset' being secured to the respective edges of the division in the garment, said gusset being dividedv longitudinally andcentrally from its upper edge to a point above the crotch portion, anda flap secured throughout one marginal edge and the gusset adjacent the line of division therein, and means for securing the flap" to the gusset.

t e back to a. point and a main section, theA line of divisionin l 2. A union garment divided through the row width. disposed in line with and at an.

angle to the side edges of the main section, said main section being longitudinally and centrally divided from its upper edge to a point approximately in line with the upper ends ofthe leg sections, the marginal edges of the gusset being secured throughout its v V:full marginal ed e to the respective'edges of the' division in t e garment. g

3. A single piece gusset for union garments including a body having side edges of4 upwardly converging formation and an upper edge of appreciable length, 'thebody portion having integral extensions'projectlng from the lower edge thereof, the side vedges of said extensions meeting the side edges of the body on angular lines, thelower edge of the body intermediate the .adjacent edges of the extensions being of` V-shape, said body being divided longitudinally from va point immedlately above the extenslons to and through the upper edge. L

In testimony whereof I afiix-my signature in presence of two witnesses.

cAsMIEa Witnesses LOUIS J. Tansini', `4(rnoncn Ourson. 

